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  Call for Geberal Strike on Feb 12, 2026 —statement from Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions

  10 January

  Press Release
  23rd Dec. 2025
  The following statement was issued to the press by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions (CTUs) and Sectoral Federations / Associations today

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  Bilston on Taylor, ’Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today’

  10 January

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today
  by Judith M. Taylor
  University of New Mexico Press
  2025. Illustrations. 218 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-8263-6783-9.
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  Reviewed by Sarah Bilston (Trinity College)
  Judith M. Taylor

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  A Diplomat

  10 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]

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  Documentary essay: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

  10 January
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  Music: Habibi Funk - The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr - Nile Waves (Sudan, 1980)

  10 January
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 20 & Dec 27 2025

  21 December 2025

  * Metamorphosis of the Rural Job Guarantee Scheme | Arup Kumar Sen
  * The Quiet Theft: How India

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 20, Dec 27, 2025

  21 December 2025

  A welfare state modeled on ideals of social responsibility & respect for rights ceding ground to private business interests and cost cutting
  In the last session of Parliament as the year 2025 winds to an end, the Modi Government rushed through legislation (all named in Hindi much to the displeasure of parliamentarians from non-hindi speaking states) that has far reaching consequences without much debate. There was ’The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025’ that does away with (…)

• Metamorphosis of the Rural Job Guarantee Scheme | Arup Kumar Sen

  21 December 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The Union government is set to introduce the Viksit Bharat

• Census 2026 & the Delimitation Debate | C R Annapurna

  21 December 2025, by C R Annapurna

  INDIA NEEDS A new formula to bring about a rational and fair method of representation in Parliament. Every seat needs to have a value.
  India is a federal country and has adopted parliamentary form of government with representative democracy. Elections to the Lok Sabha are conducted once in 5 years, and all citizens of India above the age of 18 participate in these elections and elect their representatives.
  Each Member of the Lok Sabha is expected to represent more or less equal number of (…)

• Local Body Polls (2025) In Kerala: Spectacular Show by The UDF | M. R. Biju, M. R. B. Anantha Padmanabha

  21 December 2025, by Biju B L

  Article 243 E and 243 U of the Constitution of India deals with the question of duration of Panchayats and Municipalities and periodicity of elections to the rural and urban local bodies. It says